Kelly Perine, an advocate for sexual assault victims, said she has seen the trauma they go through.

"The forensic end is horrible enough when they have to go through a rape exam. Every time they have to report it to a college official or the police, the victims are being revictimized to an extent you would not believe," said Perine, a paralegal for Legal Assistance of Western New York, or LawNY, in Bath.

On Saturday, the Palace Theater in Corning will host a public screening of "It Happened Here," a documentary on sexual assault on college campuses and some victims who fought back. The film by Emmy Award winner Lisa F. Jackson follows women from Amherst College, Vanderbilt University and the University of Connecticut who went public about how their schools mishandled their cases.

The film runs 75 minutes and the discussion is expected to last 30 to 45 minutes.

"We are hoping to raise awareness about this issue, increase the community's knowledge of it and the local resources available," Perine said.

Donations at the event will be given to the resource center in Corning, which Michaela said lost about $200,000 in grant income. Michaela said she and Perine volunteer at the resource center, which serves Chemung, Schuyler and Steuben counties with a hotline, and does outreach and accompanies sexual assault victims to the hospital for rape exams.

"In the last year, I have gone out to calls out to the hospital with sex assault victims and these occurred on college campuses in the area. I know that other (resource center) volunteers and staff have done that, too. It is an issue we are seeing locally," Perine said.

An 11-county region of western New York, including the Southern Tier, has only 3.7 percent of the state's population, but 5.7 percent of reported forcible rapes over a three-year period, LawNY said. The agency, through a Department of Justice grant, provides legal assistance for female sexual assault victims, including orders of protection, custody, child support and housing.